Portal strategies on speed

@Home's $6.7 billion bid to buy Excite is the latest in a string of pushes by high-speed access and content players to get into users' homes faster. It also coincides with a shift in the portal landscape toward consolidation and partnership with established offline brands.

Excite VP sees green in broadband deal
Joe Kraus stands to reap a cool $45.4 million when @Home completes its purchase of the Internet directory he helped found as a Stanford University student in 1993.

AOL's fast Net move circumvents cablenews analysis
America Online's plans for high-speed Net access are simple: be just as dominant in broadband as it is now in dial-up access. But that objective is easier said than done.